A Serious Discourse

Long back Yeats talked Among
School Children about‘Old
clothes upon old sticks to scare a bird.’I too had a chance to
meet, while walking outIn the fields, with crops
grown carpet green and heardTwo scarecrows just
beginning to whimperIn pure sadness, reviewing
the life of man.As I had no answer ready
to hamperTheir silent talk, about
self-cursed manWho hurries towards
affliction every now and then,

Said the first one, beginning
discourse about men:

“When like us once man was
in tatters clothed,

Friendship, love, society
had his garments been.In rags half or naked
full, never he loathedEach other.” “But now what a different sceneWhen he is in garbs full,
animosity, hate, loneliness keen,The maddening crowd; with
suffering huge and bitty joy.”Added the second one, not
being serene.

Painful pleasure and
sorrowful joy

Filled me in from top to
toe. And across the globe. ‘Malignant,
ho!Man has turned’, cries
echo!

And I thought of my own
native land

Along with other lands, therefrom
plyScreams, shrieks, shrills,
strikes – grandBuffeting the stony
oppressors; who slyLives in pride or hate ‘as
flies to wanton boys… For their sport.’ and ‘Combat
Terrorism’ the wordcraftOr ‘White man’s Burden’, for acquittal andas toysThey takeover innocent mankind,
kicking the haftAnd brutally burdening
the womb of humanity, To deliver dragons,
drones, and mother of bombs To burn the heaven on earth and celebrate
inhumanity. I only heft, kept, wept
and crept, craving for balmsWhile being lost in the
inhuman mire Missed the conversation,
very dire.

There because of my deep
sighs and sobs

The two reviewers of the Book
of ManQuivering silence, stopped,
back on jobs.

But the flames of
embarrassment in me, did they fan

With their last sigh,
“Pitiable creator of ours- seriously illHow lustfully you destroy
yours Life sustaining crop!
While we still In tattered clothes guard
YOURS.”

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